The control of recombination

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Abstract
Recombination results in the release of variation upon which selection is practised in plant breeding. However, according to the objectives of the programme it may be necessary to reduce recombination to limit the disturbance of arrangements of genes already well suited to agricultural needs or to increase recombination to maximize the likelihood of recombination’s giving rise to transgressive segregation. Appropriate breeding manipulations are discussed. In addition, descriptions are provided of the induction of recombination between chromosomes that are distantly related in evolution and between which meiotic pairing and recombination does not normally take place.

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